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Samsung Galaxy S III
Designed for humans
Effortlessly smart and intuitively simple, Samsung Galaxy S III is a new smartphone concept. It is the most human mobile device ever made.
It sees, listens, responds. It's personal. But it's for everyone. And it marks an incredible new generation of mobile phones.
Inspired by nature: the GALAXY S III's minimal and organic design is reflected in its smooth and non-linear lines of the device. Its human-centric nature provides an ergonomic and comfortable experience with enhanced usability.
With the Samsung Galaxy S III, you can view content like never before on a 4.8 inch HD Super AMOLED display, whilst an 8MP camera and an 1.9MP front camera offer a variety of intelligent camera features and face recognition related options so you can capture all moments easily and instantly. The Samsung Galaxy S III is powered by Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich and full of intuitive technology, delivering a uniquely personalised mobile experience.
Smart thinking - Adapting to the way you surf
Smart Stay
With the innovative Smart Stay feature, GALAXY S III automatically recognizes when you are looking at the phone, whether it is to read an e-book or browse the web. The front camera looks deep into your eyes and maintains a bright display for continued viewing pleasure. What a bright idea.
Direct Call
Samsung GALAXY S III even knows when you want to talk. When you are messaging someone and decide to call them instead, simply lift the phone to your ear and Direct call will dial their number for you. No more fumbling through call logs or contacts. Let GALAXY S III do the work.
Pop-up Play
Picture-in-picture technology lets you watch a video and do other tasks, like sending emails, or surfing the web at the same time.
S-Beam
Sharing your content with friends nearby should be easy, quick, and even fun. S Beam lets you bond instantly so you can transfer documents, contacts, pictures, music, videos, you name it. Just put the backs of your phones together, connect, share and enjoy.
What makes it more human?
Designed for humans isn't just a marketing headline. It really does sum up how you'll experience a phone that is unlike anything out there. Here are the key features:
Social Tag
Now it's even easier to keep track of friends and loved ones. Social Tag lets you link the faces in your photo album with their social media streams. Once it's set, all you have to do is look at their pictures and you'll see their current status appear.
Best Photo
The GALAXY S III can take first of eight shots at once and then recommends the best one. Increasing the chance of a great shot every time.
S-Voice
Why not get a response from your phone? Tell it to wake up! Even better, you can tell GALAXY S III to turn off the alarm for a few minutes and let yourself sleep a bit more. Answer your phone (or reject a call), turn your music up (or down) and even tell the camera to load.
Smart Alert
When you pick up your phone, wouldn't it be nice if it let you know what has been happening since you've been gone? The GALAXY S III knows you came back and gives you a brief vibrating nudge to inform you about missed calls and new messages. How thoughtful is that?
AllShare Play
There's another way to share content on various devices. It's called AllShare Play, and it lets us work together through the magic of DLNA and Wi-Fi Direct, giving us remote access to documents and multimedia files when we work on a different screen somewhere else.
AllShare Cast
Wouldn't it be nice to mirror your phone display onto a big screen wirelessly? Now you can. AllShare Cast lets you do it, and it's perfect for gamers. After the game you are playing appears on the screen, you can even use your phone's buttons as a controller with gestures.
No wires, no fuss.
Buddy Photo-share
It couldn't be easier to manage and share your photos. The phone recognizes faces and links those for you, using your group profiles for guidance. Now you're once touch away from sharing with everyone instantly.
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Update 13/06/12 - If you head over to Blog Clove, you will see a PS3/XBOX 360 controller, USB keyboard and most importantly USB storage in the form of flash and hard disks being able to be connected directly to the device! Once I've managed to try out storage I will update the review.
Update 17/06/12 - USB OTG works, means you can connect to a usb stick or hard drive to use additional storage. You'll need a micro usb adapter connect, but media files work flawlessly.
My Galaxy S2 was lost a few weeks ago and I decided to ditch my contract and go for the S3. My only regret in buying the phone was that I didn't wait until the 64GB version came out, I'll explain why a bit later. Here are the improvements over the S2 and should answer some questions people have about the phone.
Positives:
1. Form factor, feels much better built than the S2, not in the same league as the HTC One or Iphone. Fits easily into a trouser or jean pocket, it only weighs a few more grams than the S2. Today in the office the new one has been weighed and compared to nearly every other phone out there and no one has remarked it is too big.
2. Indicator light, there is a flashing indicator light that can indicate missed calls, messages and charging status. This can be controlled by software to when it comes on and I prefer phones with this functionality as it saves powering the screen on and off, so saves battery life.
3. Speaking of battery life, it is nearly 5PM here and the phone is at 68% battery.... Read more ›
My biggest concern was the size of the phone, but having used it for a few weeks now I can say that it is actually not that big - I think that other phones are just small (lol). When I bought the Sony Ericsson Xperia Arc about 2 years ago I thought that was "big", but now it feels just like a toy when compared to the Galaxy S3. I have to be honest, though. If I had my own way I would have made it slightly smaller, but not as small as the recently released "mini" version. It is still quite comfortable to hold and operate, unless you have very small hands.
There are so many reviews available for this device, so I won't go too much into the technical specification of the phone. But needless to say it does perform pretty well in all aspects. The most outstanding feature (for me) is of course the absolutely gorgeous Super AMOLED screen, which, as advertised, displays blacks much "blacker" than a comparable LCD screen would be able to. Yes, LCD screens are more accurate when it comes to the overall display of colours, and they display whites "whiter". But the screen on the Galaxy S3 is more vivid, and almost "jumps" at you when you look at it. Viewing angles are brilliant, with no colour distortion whatsoever.
I often use my phone as a music player, so I wanted a device which does not slack in this department. The Samsung Galaxy S3 is such a device.... Read more ›
Unfortunately a few more months down the line I ran into some problems. The phone would often freeze and crash on a regular basis. The phone completely died in December so I had to send it off to Samsung for repair which was a horrible experience. Finding and actual helpline was near enough impossible! I also found that my Samsung account would not let me log In despite verifying the email was correct and changing the password a number of times. This meant my backup was lost. I received the phone back weeks later which had been completely reset. In therefore had lost all of my data. Most of which admittedly wasn't that important but it was inconvenient reinstalling all my apps. The phone still had crashing problems but it was more tolerable. By April the phone would constant switch between apps by itself constantly booting up s voice and driving mode making it impossible to use. At this point I gave up traded it in a got an iPhone which is much more limited but at the end of the day has excellent customer service and runs smoothly.
I would still recommend this phone as when it worked it was amazing. I believe I probably had a dodgy phone.... Read more ›
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